DTS HT5102 (Adair) Final Exam Study
Guide
Ann Hutchinson - correct answer ✔✔(1591-1643) Boston, MA Puritan who "criticized the clergy [Cotton
& others) for teaching a works-oriented salvation. She believed that assurance of salvation was to be
solely based on the inner witness of the Spirit, a subjective experience being the only claim to the reality
of a true religious experience." Radical separation of justification and sanctification. (63)
Center of "Antinomian Controversy"
Convicted of sedition & banished from MA. Helped settle Pelham Bay (Bronx, NY); massacred by
indigenous peoples.
John Cotton - correct answer ✔✔Boston Puritan pastor; "wrote A Key to Revelation, expressed the view
that the promised spiritual kingdom had arrived... claimed... that the 1,260 days of Revelation... ended in
1630 when Puritans arrived in Boston. The 'kingdom of God' had physically and spiritually entered
human history." (65) Grandfather of Cotton Mather.
Thomas Hooker - correct answer ✔✔Puritan, founded Connecticut Colony & Hartford in 1636, believing
that the right of voter privilege and religious tolerance should be broader. Right to vote should be based
on "proven moral and religious character." (61)
Cotton Mather - correct answer ✔✔Puritan pastor; appropriated OT narrative for white Puritan project.
Wrote history of NE, Magnalia Christi Americana
Roger Williams - correct answer ✔✔Advocated separation of state in religious matters: "'Wall of
Separation' between church and state'" Wrote "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution" 1644. Regular Baptist
contra New Light Separate Baptists.
Established first Baptist church in America 1638; established gov't providing religious liberty & separation
of church & state 1640.
William Penn - correct answer ✔✔Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania
(1644-1718)
, Jonathan Edwards - correct answer ✔✔18th c Puritan; born in CT. 4th-gen Colonial NE minister; trained
& converted at Yale; licensed at 19; wrote 70 "Resolutions." Preached during "The Great Awakening," c.
1734. Assoc. w/ New Lights (sensual focus, experiential) but had questions about the revival.
1737: "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God;" 1741: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
(sermon)
George Whitefield (1714-1770) - correct answer ✔✔Met John & Charles Wesley at Oxford; Holy Club;
great itinerant open-air revivalist; embraced emotional responses to preaching; used common language.
A true catalyst of the Great Awakening, he sought to reignite religious fervor in the American
congregations. During his tour of the American Colonies in 1739, he gave spellbinding sermons and
preached the notion of "new birth"—a sudden, emotional moment of conversion and salvation.
John Wesley (1703-1791) - correct answer ✔✔English cleric and theologian who, with his brother
Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism. Oxford; Holy Club; sailed to America
1735; drama in GA; converted 1738; kept journal; split w/ Whitefield over predestintation and free will;
founded Methodist Society Conf. (Methodism); horrible marriage to Molly; Perfectionism / "entire
sanctification;" separated justification & sanctification; second work of Grace
Francis Asbury - correct answer ✔✔He was an influential speaker who went around America and
preached Methodism as a circuit rider. He was anti-Deist and was part of the Second Great Awakening.
Thomas Coke - correct answer ✔✔First Methodist Bishop, known as Father of Methodist Missions
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings
and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Conceptualized social
contract and Scottish commonsense moral philosophy; influenced founding fathers (129)
Two Treatises on Government
"Letter Concerning Toleration"
Timothy Dwight - correct answer ✔✔Grandson of Jonathan Edwards; President of Yale; championed
classic orthodoxy.
J. Hudson Taylor - correct answer ✔✔founded the China Inland Mission. Known for adoption of local
dress and culture.
Guide
Ann Hutchinson - correct answer ✔✔(1591-1643) Boston, MA Puritan who "criticized the clergy [Cotton
& others) for teaching a works-oriented salvation. She believed that assurance of salvation was to be
solely based on the inner witness of the Spirit, a subjective experience being the only claim to the reality
of a true religious experience." Radical separation of justification and sanctification. (63)
Center of "Antinomian Controversy"
Convicted of sedition & banished from MA. Helped settle Pelham Bay (Bronx, NY); massacred by
indigenous peoples.
John Cotton - correct answer ✔✔Boston Puritan pastor; "wrote A Key to Revelation, expressed the view
that the promised spiritual kingdom had arrived... claimed... that the 1,260 days of Revelation... ended in
1630 when Puritans arrived in Boston. The 'kingdom of God' had physically and spiritually entered
human history." (65) Grandfather of Cotton Mather.
Thomas Hooker - correct answer ✔✔Puritan, founded Connecticut Colony & Hartford in 1636, believing
that the right of voter privilege and religious tolerance should be broader. Right to vote should be based
on "proven moral and religious character." (61)
Cotton Mather - correct answer ✔✔Puritan pastor; appropriated OT narrative for white Puritan project.
Wrote history of NE, Magnalia Christi Americana
Roger Williams - correct answer ✔✔Advocated separation of state in religious matters: "'Wall of
Separation' between church and state'" Wrote "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution" 1644. Regular Baptist
contra New Light Separate Baptists.
Established first Baptist church in America 1638; established gov't providing religious liberty & separation
of church & state 1640.
William Penn - correct answer ✔✔Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania
(1644-1718)
, Jonathan Edwards - correct answer ✔✔18th c Puritan; born in CT. 4th-gen Colonial NE minister; trained
& converted at Yale; licensed at 19; wrote 70 "Resolutions." Preached during "The Great Awakening," c.
1734. Assoc. w/ New Lights (sensual focus, experiential) but had questions about the revival.
1737: "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God;" 1741: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
(sermon)
George Whitefield (1714-1770) - correct answer ✔✔Met John & Charles Wesley at Oxford; Holy Club;
great itinerant open-air revivalist; embraced emotional responses to preaching; used common language.
A true catalyst of the Great Awakening, he sought to reignite religious fervor in the American
congregations. During his tour of the American Colonies in 1739, he gave spellbinding sermons and
preached the notion of "new birth"—a sudden, emotional moment of conversion and salvation.
John Wesley (1703-1791) - correct answer ✔✔English cleric and theologian who, with his brother
Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism. Oxford; Holy Club; sailed to America
1735; drama in GA; converted 1738; kept journal; split w/ Whitefield over predestintation and free will;
founded Methodist Society Conf. (Methodism); horrible marriage to Molly; Perfectionism / "entire
sanctification;" separated justification & sanctification; second work of Grace
Francis Asbury - correct answer ✔✔He was an influential speaker who went around America and
preached Methodism as a circuit rider. He was anti-Deist and was part of the Second Great Awakening.
Thomas Coke - correct answer ✔✔First Methodist Bishop, known as Father of Methodist Missions
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings
and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Conceptualized social
contract and Scottish commonsense moral philosophy; influenced founding fathers (129)
Two Treatises on Government
"Letter Concerning Toleration"
Timothy Dwight - correct answer ✔✔Grandson of Jonathan Edwards; President of Yale; championed
classic orthodoxy.
J. Hudson Taylor - correct answer ✔✔founded the China Inland Mission. Known for adoption of local
dress and culture.
